Mitchell B. Lerner is Associate Professor of History at the Ohio State University and the Mershon Center for International Security Studies. He has held the Mary Ball Washington Distinguished Fulbright Chair at University College-Dublin, and been an officer of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. He is also Director of Ohio State's Institute for Korea Studies. He is the author of The Pueblo Incident: A Spy Ship and the Failure of American Foreign Policy (2002), which won the John Lyman Book Award, and editor of Looking Back at LBJ (2005).

• Notes on Contributors viiiIntroduction 1Mitchell B. LernerPart I Pre-Presidential Years 51 The Changing South 7Jeff Woods2 LBJ in the House and Senate 23Donald A. Ritchie3 The Vice Presidency 38Marc J. SelverstonePart II Lyndon B. Johnson’s White House 574 Lady Bird Johnson 59Lisa M. Burns5 Management and Vision 76Sean J. SavagePart III Domestic Policy 916 The War on Poverty 93Edward R. Schmitt7 African-American Civil Rights 111Kent B. Germany8 Mexican Americans 132Lorena Oropeza9 Women’s Issues 149Susan M. Hartmann10 Health Care 163Larry DeWitt and Edward D. Berkowitz11 Environmental Policy 187Martin V. Melosi12 American Immigration Policy 210Donna R. Gabaccia and Maddalena Marinari13 LBJ and the Constitution 228Robert David Johnson14 The Urban Crisis 245David Steigerwald15 Education Reform 263Lawrence J. McAndrews16 Domestic Insurgencies 278Doug Rossinow17 LBJ and the Conservative Movement 295Jeff RochePart IV: Vietnam 31918 Decisions for War 321Andrew Preston19 Fighting the Vietnam War 336Robert D. Schulzinger20 The War at Home 350Mary Ann Wynkoop21 The War from the Other Side 367Pierre AsselinPart V Beyond Vietnam 38522 Latin America 387Alan McPherson23 Europe 406Thomas Alan Schwartz24 LBJ and the Cold War 420John Dumbrell25 The Middle East 439Peter L. Hahn26 LBJ and the New Global Challenges 450Mark Atwood LawrencePart VI Final Reckonings 46727 How Great was the Great Society? 469Sidney M. Milkis28 Lyndon B. Johnson and the World 487Nicholas Evan Sarantakes29 The Legacy of Lyndon B. Johnson 504Andrew L. JohnsBibliography 521Index 583

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